8:59 AM,
Aug. 14, 2013

Convicted killer Walter Tormasi (left) during his murder trial in 1998. Tormasi was in court Tuesday for a hearing.

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Sergio Bichao
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The state Superior Court judge at Tuesday's hearing in Somerville said it sounds like the plot of "a bad detective story."

Calling their father "an evil person" who was capable of killing his own family, the children of a 1996 Bridgewater murder victim testified that their father may have confessed to ordering the hit on their mother, Frances.

Their younger brother, Walter Tormasi, is serving a life sentence in their mother's death. Authorities said Tormasi, then 16, shot his mother 10 times at close range in the driveway of the family's Bridgewater home. ...